Lines from a Song by Jay Chou



The fallen maple leaves are like beads
of my yearning for you; why do we have
to clear this colourless landscape of them
before the coming of winter? I go back in time.

I let two droplets of my tears from this
season’s end to remain, so my love too remains,
here within the empty topography of my heart:
How I wish you could stay beside me always.